A Life in Ancient Greek: The Secret Diary of Karl Benedikt Hase (1780–1864)

A project dedicated to the edition and study of Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret’ diary, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and hosted by the University of Innsbruck

Hase’s Trip Algeria (1839). Telesca for IJCT

Karl Benedikt Hase was among the French scholars most actively engaged in the early scientific missions to Algeria. As part of his responsibilities advising the Commission Scientifique pour l’Exploration de l’Algérie from his role within the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Hase visited French Algeria in 1839. Based on her work on Hase’s Greek diary…

LAGOOS Workshop Report – “Diaries of Scholarship“

On 19th September 2025, the LAGOOS team welcomed a group of 10 international participants to Innsbruck for a day of scholarly exchange on the theme of Diaries of Scholarship. The workshop addressed a series of questions on the study and modern digital editions of European scholars’ diaries between the 15th and 19th centuries. Adopting a…

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Foto: Klassik Stiftung Weimar, GSA 108/2921

LAGOOS PROJECT

Running from 2023 to 2028, the project has at its core the publication and study of the nine surviving volumes of Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘secret’ diary, written in Ancient Greek.